Chapter 1141: Top Ten in Merit

Whoosh!

A resplendent arrow of light pierced through the air, and amid countless stunned gazes, it struck the blood-red talisman directly.

Phase force, saturated with a sacred and purifying aura, poured forth.

Facing the joint assault of the four, the bizarre talisman finally reached the limit of what it could endure, and the many eyes upon it shut completely.

Boom!

The blood-red talisman shattered.

With the shattering of the blood-red talisman, the arrow of light, the shadow shuttle, the azure Buddha hand, and the torrent of raging flames behind it met no further obstruction and pierced straight through the void.

Then, amid countless wild, joyous gazes, they slammed brutally into the body of the Blood Coffin person attempting to flee behind.

A violent storm of energy ravaged outward, sweeping the surrounding area clean, even causing the void here to crack; the traces of the Water City blurred, faintly revealing the original "Little Chentian" environment that had been concealed.

And everyone's gaze was fixed intently on the Blood Coffin person.

Under the strongest attacks of Li Luo and the other three, the latter displayed an extremely tenacious vitality; his body was torn riddled with wounds, yet he stubbornly endured, attempting to withstand it head-on.

But unluckily for him, Li Luo's arrow of light kept emitting sacred, purifying power, rapidly dissolving the foreign matter within his body.

In the end, a look of terror surfaced on the Blood Coffin person's face.

Boom!

His body actually exploded violently at this moment, bursting into sticky flesh and blood all over the ground.

His vast, violent aura also vanished completely at this moment.

Li Luo's arrow ultimately became the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely sealing the Blood Coffin person's death.

The death of the Blood Coffin person undoubtedly had an enormous impact.

The Black Coffin people still locked in fierce combat saw this and all revealed looks of horror; then, with their fighting spirit gone, they shot backward in retreat, turning tail to flee.

Neither team from the two ancient academies obstructed the fleeing Black Coffin people; at this moment, they had no surplus strength to intercept them. On the contrary, only those people's withdrawal could allow them to weather the current situation.

"He's finally dead!"

Joy surfaced in Feng Lingyuan's eyes. She then looked toward Li Luo behind her, her gaze filled with amazement—who could have imagined that the one to break the deadlock would be Li Luo's surprise attack.

Without Li Luo's arrow, even the three of them joining forces could not have slain the Blood Coffin person.

"This guy..." And Li Luo's performance also made Feng Lingyuan look at him with renewed respect. Previously, she had agreed to team up with Li Luo mainly because of his relationship with Jiang Jiang Qinge, hoping to gain a powerful ally in the end. But who would have thought that along the way, Jiang Jiang Qinge had yet to be encountered, yet Li Luo had already displayed assistance no inferior to anyone.

And most crucially, Li Luo was still only at Tian Zhu Jing.

One truly didn't know how terrifyingly powerful this guy would be once he also stepped into Da Tian Xiang Jing.

"Let's go, help Wang Kong!"

But this was no time for further thought. Feng Lingyuan called out to Duanmu and Wei Chonglou, then took the lead, sweeping toward Wang Kong's side.

The latter three were holding off over a dozen Greater Evil Freaks; they were probably nearing their limit.

And with the addition of Feng Lingyuan's three powerful fresh troops, the pressure on Wang Kong's side dropped sharply, and they even began to counterattack.

In other areas of the battlefield, the student teams also began methodically encircling and slaying the Evil Freaks. The entire situation was clearly gradually falling under control.

Li Luo's arrow had completely revitalized the situation.

Yet when the other students began the encirclement, Li Luo had no more strength to act. His once-"Dragonified" body now had many of its golden dragon scales blasted apart, golden blood seeping through his skin, and his dragon claws were covered in wounds.

Li Luo sat cross-legged on the ground; the signs of dragonification on his body began to fade rapidly, his internal phase force nearly depleted, his three phase palaces dim and lusterless, and his meridians kept emitting stabbing pain.

"So uncomfortable."

Li Luo tugged at the corner of his mouth. This kind of external force felt even harder to control than the "Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf." Even though this energy had already been refined once by the "Ancient Spirit Leaf," if not for the mysterious golden wheel performing one more transformation at the end, he probably still wouldn't have been able to release this energy stably.

One could only say this method was indeed perilously risky; no wonder Lu Ming and the others all felt he was being too reckless.

But the situation earlier also needed a strong remedy; otherwise, as time went on, their side would suffer even greater casualties.

Li Luo circulated the only remaining water-light phase force, letting it flow continuously through his meridians to repair the internal injuries. At the same time, he activated the "Ancient Spirit Leaf" on the back of his hand to check his merit points.

He found that his merit points had changed from the previous four Jia and eight Yi to nine Jia and five Yi.

Li Luo estimated: he had slain two Black Coffin people and several Evil Freaks earlier, so the remaining two Jia merits—were they given for shooting the Blood Coffin person just now?

But Feng Lingyuan and the other two also contributed to shooting the Blood Coffin person, so presumably they should have been allocated some as well.

With this, Li Luo, whose merit points had reached nine Jia and five Yi, had thoroughly broken into the top ten of the merit leaderboard.

This was truly a bit eye-catching.

Because looking at the top ten, they were all the most elite students in the Celestial Star Hall of the two ancient academies.

And first place was still Jiang Jiang Qinge.

Her merit points reached as high as thirteen Jia.

Li Luo stared at her merit points, honestly a bit dumbfounded. He had already been catching up at an exceptionally rapid pace, yet the gap remained this large.

"This fierce?" Li Luo was shocked. On Jiang Jiang Qinge's side, had she already toppled the "Ten Thousand Skin Evil Heart Pillar"? How could her merit points have risen so much?

But Jiang Jiang Qinge possessed dual nine-grade light phases, so when it came to suppressing foreign beings, she was indeed unmatched; here, she held an extremely strong advantage.

Li Luo looked at second place again—that was Wu Changkong, with twelve Jia merits.

Quite close to Jiang Jiang Qinge's. Could they have happened to be in the same place?

While Li Luo was checking the merit leaderboard, the battlefield here also grew increasingly clear-cut. On Wang Kong's side, with Feng Lingyuan and the other two's support, the dozen-plus Greater Evil Freaks were gradually split apart and successively hunted down.

The merit points here Li Luo could only look at longingly; after all, he had no strength left to harvest.

After roughly an incense stick's time, the battlefield completely quieted down.

All the students breathed a sigh of relief, then sat on the ground, faces full of exhaustion, adjusting their phase force and recovering from their injuries.

Some students wore sorrowful faces—those were the ones whose familiar companions had become cold corpses.

In the battlefield, the atmosphere was slightly heavy; everyone was gathering their composure.

Seeing this, Li Luo could only sigh inwardly. Then he saw Li Hongyiu walking toward him briskly, a concerned voice coming: "Are you alright?"

Li Luo nodded.

Li Luo activated the Profound Wood Feather Fan, fanning out two beams of Bai Guang to restore Li Luo's Xiang power.

Then she took out several "Essence Blood Pearls" and handed them to Li Luo.

Li Luo did not make a fuss; he thanked her, swallowed the "Essence Blood Pearls," and immediately felt a warm current spreading through his body, alleviating his injuries.

His strength finally recovered somewhat.

Then Li Luo stood up and, along with Li Hongyou, came to the edge of the Blood Pool; at this moment, Feng Lingyuan, Wang Kong, Yin Yue Zhiyu, and others were all standing there.

Seeing Li Luo, they all nodded slightly; the strength he had displayed earlier had earned everyone's approval.

Li Luo smiled at them, then turned his gaze to the Blood Pool; at this moment, within the vortex of the Blood Pool, that strange and mysterious odd egg was still floating up and down.

He pointed his finger toward it and asked.

"How should this thing be handled?"